# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1916_S24
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24. The Lutheran Pioneer.

million. Their missionaries number 1,550, and
their contributions for the work last year amounted
to $3,300,000.

A Liperat Bequest. — Miss Grace H. Dodge,
New York, who was for many years president of
the National Young Women’s Christian Associa-
tion, bequeathed $25,000 to the Presbyterian Home
Mission Board and the same large sum to the Pres-
byterian Foreign Mission Board.

UnoccuPIED MISSION-FIELDS IN Asta. — In
Manchuria the province of Helung-kiang, with its
1,500,000 people, is without any missionary pro-
vision whatever. So, also, there is no mission-work
done among the 2,500,000 nomad Mongols that in-
habit the great desert of Gobi and the long stretches
of Mongolia. In Tibet there are more than 6,000,000
people as yet completely without missionary minis-
tration. West of Tibet lies Afghanistan, with four
millions, and north of Afghanistan, Bokhara and
Khiva, which, together with the Mohammedans of
Russian Turkestan and Russia proper, represent a
population of at least 20,000,000, all of them with-
out a missionary. How much work is still to be
done! The vastness of the unoccupied fields in
Asia alone is truly appalling. 15), dig 1b

BOOK TABLE.

SYNODICAL REPORTS OF MISSOURI SYNOD. No.8.
Sued-Illinois-Distrikt; 92 pages; price, 18 cts.
No. Sa. Kansas-Distrikt; 60 pages; price, 12 cts.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

The first-named report brings an exhaustive paper by
Prof. W. H. T. Dau on “The Judgment of the Augsburg
Confession concerning the Romish Mass.” ‘The report of
the Kansas District brings the first part of a paper by
Prof. M. Graebner on “The Warfare of the Spirit against
the Flesh,” and a very full report of the district’s Board
on Home Missions. :

. PRAYERS. Submitted by Marlin 8S. Sommer, Pastor of
Grace Ey. Luth. Church, St. Louis, Mo. Fourth
edition, revised. Published by Rudolph Volkening,
St. Louis, Mo. In neat cloth binding, 25 cts.; dozen,
$2.40. Bound in black cloth, with gilt edge,'50 cts.;
dozen, $4.80. Postage, 3 cts. per copy. Order from
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.

This book of 107 pages will prove a splendid gift-book
for ‘Confirmation. The fact that this is the fourth edi-
tion of the book alone proves that it adequately meets
a want among us. This new edition has been enlarged
by the addition of instructions for those who intend to
partake of the Lord’s Supper, and a model “Sponsor Let-
ter.’ The long list of English Christian names will be
welcome to many. May there soon be a call for a fifth
edition of this excellent booklet! — Mr. Volkening. has
also published A REMINDER. This is.a leaflet with a
fine reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the
Lord’s Supper. Beneath the picture is the question, “What
should admonish and incite a Christian to receive the Sac-
rament frequently?” with its answer. On the back of the

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leaflet are printed the words of Institution. The price
of this leaflet is only 50 cts. per hundred, or 10 ets. per
dozen.

CATECHISM LESSONS FOR LUTHERAN SUNDAY-
SCHOOLS. By A. 7. Hanser. Published in seven
numbers a year by the Lutheran Publishing Co., Buf-
falo. - One copy per year, 35 cts.; 5 copies,
$1.25; 25, $6.00; 50, $10.00; 100, $19.00.

These Sunday-school leaflets differ from others in this
that they bring a lesson on the Catechism in connection
with the Bible story for the Sunday. We believe that in
congregations where no other religious instruction is given
the children except in the Sunday-school, these Catechism
Lessons will prove helpful in preparing the children for
the confirmation class.

TELL HIS DISCIPLES AND PETER. An Easter Ser-
vice for Children. By Rev, A. 7. Hanser. Lutheran
Publishing Co., 105 Florida St., Buffalo, N. Y.
S pag Price, 5 ets.; 25 copies, $1.00; 100, $2.50;
300, $5.00.

A very serviceable Easter service, indeed. ‘The cate-
chization is based on the Gospel according to St. Mark.
‘The songs are taken from the Sunday-school Hymnal. Also
a German edition is published. r. J.

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Acknowledgments.

Received for Colored Missions front the following Col-
ored congregations: —In Louisiana: New Orleans: Re-
deemer, $4.30, Sunday-school, .60; St. Paul, 40.00; Beth-
lehem, 40.00; Mount Zion, 40.00; St. Paul, Napoleon-
ville, 4.39; Trinity, Johnson, 1.25; St. Paul, Mansura,
3.00. In North Carolina: Bethel, Greenville, 3.00; Beth-
lehem, Monroe, 1.00; Grace, Greensboro, 2.29; St. Luke,
High Point, .30; station in Winston, 40; Trinity, Elon
College, .72; St. Paul, Charlotte, 11.00; Mount Zion,
Meyersville, 3.00; St. John, Salisbury, 15.00; Mount Cal-
vary, Mount Pleasant, 3.00; St. Peter, Dry’s Schoolhouse,
2.00; Mount Zion, Rocks, 3.00; Zion, Gold Hill, 3.00;
Concordia, Rockwell, 3.00; station in Albemarle, 1.00;
Messiah, Fayetteville, 1.38; St. James, Southern Pines,
4.00; Grace, Concord, 25.00; Mount Calvary, Sandy
Ridge, 10.00. In Virginia: St. Matthew, Meherrin, 6.05;
station in Richmond, 1.60. In New York: Bethany, Yon-
kers, 13.00; Immanuel, Brooklyn, 1.00. Station in Wash-
ington, D. C., 2.34. — Total, $249.62.

St. Louis, Mo., February 7, 1916.
Joun H. Souuwze, 7'reas.
2211 Holly Ave.

Gratefully received from Mr. F.W. Jacobs, R. 1, Ridatt,
Ill., $ .50, for reed organ for St. Peter’s; also a box of
clothing from the Ladies’ Aid Society of Marcus Church,
St. Louis, and a barre] and three boxes from Pastor Frey,
Brooklyn, N. Y. JOUN ALSTON. °

TERMS.
Tne LutueraNn PIONEER is published monthly, payable
in advance at the following rates per annum, postage in-
cluded, to wit:

IS Copy steer teisienctectek tliat + 25
LON Coplestecetctec creatine 2.00
25 Copies .................-- 5.00
GOs Copiesiia. esc e secs Booees - 9.00

Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to

one address. —In St. Louis, by mail or carrier, 35 cents.

per annum.
All business communications to be addressed to CoN-
CORDIA PuBLIsSHINe House, Jefferson Ave. and Miami St.,
St. Louis, Mo.
All communications concerning the editorial depart-
ment to be addressed to Rev. F. J. LANKENAU, 316 West
Clinton St., Napoleon, O. a